Improvement in fire-place grates



UNITED STATES qPATENT OFFICE JAMES S. LESTER, OF ATLANTA, GEORGIA,ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND JOHN F. EDWARDS, OF SAME PLACE.V

IMPROVEMENT IN FIRE-PLACE GRATES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 158,289, dated December29, 1874,' application filed November 12, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES S. LEsTER, of Atlanta, in the county of Fultonand in the State of Georgia, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fire-Grate Baskets; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, making a part of this speciiication.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a basket lire-grate, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure l is a perspective view of my basket fire-grate, and Fig. 2 is atransverse vertical section of the same.

My basketiiregrate is made in two seetions-a frontsection and a bottomsectionhinged together as shown. The front section is composed of twovertical side bars, A A, connected by a series of horizontal bars, B B,which are set inclined, as shown particularly in Fig. 2, so as topreventeven dust-coal from falling through, and at the same time besufficiently open to allow the rays of heat to be thrown out in the roomand in directions desired, and they will also, at the same time, presenta better view of the tire to a person standing or sitting in anydirection from the tire-place.

The bottom section, D, is made in any suitable inanner, with the frontedge curved upward, and formed with a horizontal bar, O. The lower endsof the side bars A of the front section are joined to the front end ot'the bottom section D by bolts, rivets, or other suitable devices for hingin g or attaching the parts together, in such a way and manner thatwhen the basket is adjusted for use, the bottom D may be at any suitableangle for feeding the coal to the front and lowest point in the grate.

By the front section being hinged or conneeted to the bottom section,the grate may be cleaned of cinders, clinkers, or other residue left inthe grate, by raising the rear of the bottom section, and therebydumping or discharging them through and between the horizontal bar C ofthe bottom section, and the lower bar, B, of the front sect-ion. Thismotion may be obtained by pressing sufficiently on the horizontal bar Oof the bottom section, or by lifting the rear of the lower section byhooking the poker in one of the notches, x, in the rear of the same.

Under the bottom section, D, isattached a sliding false grate or damper,G, which may be used or not, as desired. The object of the damper is toregulate the draft, or to check the draft from below, as desired-forinstance, in` case of retaining the burning coal over night, Sac.

The tire-grate basket thus constructed may be made with circular frontand bottom, or ot' other suitable shape; and it maybe attached to theordinary fronts now in use, or on open front stoves in the same way thatother baskets are attached, or by other suitable means.V

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, in a fire-grate basket, ot"

the side bars A, with inclined connecting-bars B B, the slotted bottompart D, provided with front bar C and notches x ai, and hinged to thelower ends of the side bars A A, and the damper G, all constructed andarranged to operate substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this31st day of October, 1874.

JAMES S. LESTER. Witnesses: i

C. C. HAMMOGK, RoBT. CRAWFORD.

